From the Report of Brigadier General Jack O'Neill
I had left Carter, Thor, Teal'c, and Bra'tac to lead the troops. In the meantime I decided to get to know myself, literally. It was a surprise to see Mini-Me again but he was cool. Apparently he was regional Duel Monster champion. I felt secure knowing that Daniel's choice to make me part of the duelist team must have been based on something. It was odd; Daniel had been left in charge, for some reason Thor, Bra'tac, Joey, and even I felt that his knowledge of the Goa'uld, myth, and Duel Monsters qualified him to choose who should go where. I then started to realize none of us had ever seen Daniel play the game. I was assuming that my 14-year-old clone wasn't better than him. Meanwhile I had to assume that I wasn't too old to learn how to play this game, but Daniel could read people and I'd learned to trust him, the guy had been dead before if he doesn't know something I doubt we'll find someone who does. The kid was trying to explain the card game to me; it was a good thing he was who he was because I doubt anyone else could say it in a way that I would actually understand. He had made the wise decision of explaining it in military terms, stuff like defense mode is the equivalent of falling back (you loose men but in the long run it's far less damaging than leaving them there) and the danger of face down monsters (ambushes), and I was actually starting to pick up on it, in the meantime I wondered what the deck that Daniel was building for me would look like, it was kind of silly but I felt as if that deck would show what he thought of me. Daniel's philosophy, a Deck's Soul, said that a deck has a personality and that the duelist and his deck have to be compatible, which I suppose is true to some extent as a deck that matches or is opposite will have the advantage of either easy flow or easy bluffs. I kinda felt judged. The kid played a "beatdown deck" I wondered if I'd be using one of them, I felt it suited me. In the meantime I waited and talked to the kid, unaware of what was going on elsewhere.
From the Jaffa Book of Tales as Translated by Dr. Daniel Jackson
I stared at he army I had helped create. Merely a small part of the former Jaffa Rebellion, the bulk of our ground forces, the last hope against the overwhelming Kull Warriors. I was sad though, this was not their world, their time to fight had passed, and I would not be their leader. Bra'tac and I were both first Primes to Apophis, the only Goa'uld to continue to use the Games of Darkness even rarely. We were both, at least, familiar with the games and their evil. Bra'tac was a master duelist, but Daniel Jackson chose me to join him and the other duelists. I was going to leave Bra'tac and the others, possibly never to see them again, to play a game I had hated for many years. I did not understand why one who was so unskilled in the Games was chosen over Bra'tac. In truth, I was afraid. I feared the evil I could unleash. And I feared the death of those who had no reason to die, and the responsibility I would hold for them. The warrior was afraid.
From the Report of Cornel Samantha Carter
While the others prepared for a secret battle that would consume an entire city filled with people, I was working with Kaiba to create any last minute weapons to fight the Goa'uld. Kaiba was incredibly smart, his knowledge of Quantum Mechanics and possibly numerous other subjects at the bare minimum matched my own. In hours Kaiba had figured out the mysteries of the gate that had taken me years. He was finding holes in my designs that would have wasted hours. Meanwhile he was creating numerous, unsuccessful but, incredible ideas. We were coming up with nothing, but even with Goa'uld based doom days away we were enjoying ourselves. Kaiba and I had an odd bond. We were very much the same, the trouble with his father, the scientific knowledge, even his combat training reminded me of me. He was the epitome of the expression our children are the leaders of tomorrow, he was a beacon of hope for his world's future, and we pushed ever onward, searching for the secrets that would save it.
From the Notes of Dr. Daniel Jackson
I was awestruck. Bakura had just revealed something that I should have realized as soon as I figured out that he too had a spirit within him. Ba-Khu-Ra, sarcastically, the eternal son of Ra, against Ra, Tok'ra. "What do you mean," I asked him "how can you be a Tok'ra". "I am not," he remarked snidely. A dark fog crept in and surrounded the two of us. Within seconds we were completely surrounded. "Sorry I didn't want those fools listening in on things that aren't their business". I was seriously confused. "Do you know how the Millennium Items were forged," he asked with masked but passionate rage in his voice. I shook my head; I barely knew anything about them. "The items were forged using a combination of dark sorcery and Goa'uld technology. A Village of 100 people was slaughtered to meet the requirement of the sorcery, 99 souls. Meanwhile the Goa'uld machines formed 7 items from pure gold and focused the powers within them. I was now thoroughly confused. "You see my Millennium Ring is different from the others" I have honestly never been so confused about an archeological explanation in years. "7 goes into 99 14.1429 times," he stated "as such certain items should have gotten fewer souls than the others, the Ring drew the short straw, as they say," he chuckled and continued "However my Millennium Ring contains 15 souls". I felt the need to stop him there I was starting to question if Bakura had gone insane "wait I thought you said you drew the short straw of 14.14 whatever" "I did but, you see, though 99 bodies were counted and used but 103 souls were sacrificed" I gasped at the realization of what he meant. "Symbiotes" "that's right within the millennium Ring lies the souls of two Goa'uld under lords, Khephri, and Ptah, and one renegade Tok'ra, Mal'ish'ta of Ker'shur". It dawned on me in its entirety; This Bakura had the knowledge of Bastet and Osiris's under lords and Ra. He was the ultimate weapon against the Goa'uld. "Do you honestly think you can defeat the creator of the Shadow Games and Anubis"? "Anubis," I blurted out without thinking "what's he got to do with this, is Osiris working for Anubis in this dimension too" Bakura obviously found something humorous in this as he broke into what can only be called, maniacal laughter. "YOU FOOL, you really don't know anything about Osiris do you" now that I thought about it Jack said I had been to preoccupied thinking of Sarah last time that I never took the time to research the System Lord. Bakura smiled menacingly before giving me even more information to process, and boy did I need to process this.
From the Report of Brigadier General Jack O'Neill
Mini-Me decided that it was time we finally separated from the battle group. After that we planed to check in with Daniel and Yugi's friends to make sure I was ready to join the duel team. However things didn't go quite as planed before I could get to Teal'c and Bra'tac, Carter got to me. Kaiba and her had made some, shall we call them, unpleasant discoveries. The Goa'uld army was on the move, the System Lord, who we would later confirm to be Osiris, was on his way to earth with 7 mother ships worth of Kull Warriors and enough Jackal-Guard and enough Death Gliders and Al'kesh to besiege every major city on Earth. It was time to go. Kaiba checked his colt. "Kaiba," I called "good luck, come back in one piece" Kaiba's staff started to laugh.
From the files of Seto Kaiba as Edited by Cornel Samantha Carter
"Great, now you laugh" General O'Neill was completely clueless. Isono answered for me "O'Neill-san Mr. Kaiba will not be going with the ground team". O'Neill was genuinely confused. I chuckled, "no one told you". "Told me what," O'Neill exclaimed becoming visibly agitated "Told you that I am the most powerful duelist on this or any planet".
